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To hate home made gifts!

152 replies

LendAnEar · 29/11/2019 14:20

Christmas is approaching and no doubt one of us will end up with some sort of home made crap gift 🙄

Am I the only one who hates anything hand made? They usually look shit and just add to clutter!

I'd love to see any decent homemade gifts anyone has received, if they're brave enough to share a photo? Grin I doubt there's many that will change my opinion.

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missyB1 · 29/11/2019 14:23

I love a homemade gift especially if it’s edible! Cakes/ chutneys/ jams / biscuits all welcome in my stocking Smile

Bluntness100 · 29/11/2019 14:24

There was an exact same thread last week on this.

Hotseat · 29/11/2019 14:26

What missyb1 said.

Moondancer73 · 29/11/2019 14:27

Wow, how completely rude and ungrateful are you

duckme · 29/11/2019 14:29

I love a homemade gift. My brother in law is really 'crafty' and he's given us some absolutely lovely gifts over the years. The only downside is that nothing we can buy him is ever as nice!
Anything edible will always be welcomed into our home too!

burnagirl · 29/11/2019 14:34

Edibles, yes maybe. Other than that, agreed.

cutebutscary · 29/11/2019 14:35

I love home made gifts . Maybe you should buy the senders vouchers for craft classes so they can up their game a bit ?

LoobyDoDoDo · 29/11/2019 14:39

There was an exact same thread last week on this.

^This

Here you go. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3747788-To-hate-homemade-gifts

DimplesToadfoot · 30/11/2019 00:11

I made these for a friend to give this xmas, it's taken me about 15 hours and approx £15 to make, including thermal lining the mittens, after last weeks thread I decided to keep them for myself and have bought friend a gift from the pound shop, I'm quids in :-)

To hate home made gifts!
Makinganewthinghappen · 30/11/2019 00:41

My sister makes me beautiful homemade gifts- we have no other close family and I just love that I have her and her lovely crochet/ knitting!

mummmy2017 · 30/11/2019 00:52

You don't have to like them, what you do have to be is gracious about being give a gift, basic manners 101.

Pipandmum · 30/11/2019 00:57

If I child has made it doesn't matter what it looks like you treasure it. If an adult then they should know if its crap or not (like would they have bought it if in a shop)? My sister is a skilled knitter and she's making me and my daughter snoods. I've seen one she made for someone else and I've been asking for one the last four Christmases! My other one quilts and has made an amazing wall hanging for my daughter. She made one a couple years ago for my son. Both will be treasured and passed down. I give gifts of chutneys and jams I've made with my home grown fruit to the teachers etc. I'm sure they'd rather that than another 'best teacher' mug!
So I do get your point but it's easy to buy, harder to make, and any gift should be accepted with grace whether you love it or are mentally deciding which charity shop will be getting it!

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 30/11/2019 01:56

I actually prefer them I think, because they're unique. Unless there's something I specifically want it's just clutter so it would be nice to have something with a little thought attached and which will be remembered.

PavlovsDeafDog · 30/11/2019 02:22

DimplesToadfoot 👍👍👍
(those are thumbs-up emoji, in case they don't show properly)

Lovely! and, Good decision!

I think I might want to hire you to make a few things for me...

dreichthanksgiving · 30/11/2019 02:47

@DimplesToadfoot your poor friend is missing out!

PavlovsDeafDog · 30/11/2019 03:00

Crap my earlier post, the @ sign didn't post to tag
@DimplesToadfoot 👍👍👍

And I agree, @dreichthanksgiving - her friend is definitely missing out!

LauraPalmersBodybag · 30/11/2019 03:36

Part of the problem is that many people are lacking in practical skills. I’ve been given beautiful knitted things for the dc’s, lovely food etc and that I welcome. But living in the age of Pinterest, no, I don’t want some bad reproduction of a sampler because it looks cute on screen.

I am of course entirely gracious with every gift I’m given, but I won’t display or even keep those things, as i genuinely don’t like it want them and they clutter the place up.

HollyGoLoudly1 · 30/11/2019 03:50

@DimplesToadfoot that looks wonderful! I would be over the moon to get something so much effort had gone into.

lowlandLucky · 30/11/2019 04:35

My friend knits the most beautiful Sanquhar pattern gloves but only makes 1 pair a year, i was really lucky to get a pair from her 5 Christmases ago, nothing you can buy in the shops compares to them, this year i am hoping for a pair of her knitted socks.
I would rather homemade than more plastic tat from China

TheClaws · 30/11/2019 05:16

Hopefully no one will waste their time making you anything then.

Sofast · 30/11/2019 05:47

Yabu. Every year I'm inundated with requests for my homemade fruit liquers and irish cream. I love receiving homemade gifts to. I really appreciate the thought and time that goes into it

I also knit pretty good baby blankets, lots of compliments. I made one for my dickhead SIL though, she never used it, stashed it somewhere and mentioned years later how she hates homemade gifts as she doesn't want anyone to think she looks poor. I wish I'd had the balls to ask for it back, it was beautiful and took me a long time to make. Baby pushchairs always look better with a homemade blanket

myself2020 · 30/11/2019 06:08

Agree- very few people are actually good at making the things they are gifting. i have a friend who makes amazing jam, and another one with bees who makes amazing honey - love these.
But bright, sparkly polyester mittens, scarfs and socks i can live without - and nobody else wants them either. they don’t keep warm either, so even homeless shelters don’t want them.

myself2020 · 30/11/2019 06:10

(i got a knitted baby blanket as well- its lovely, but 2 kids later i still haven’t figured out what tiny blankets are actually useful for - the pram has a footmuff, they sleep with a sleeping bag)

Namechangeymcnamechange11 · 30/11/2019 06:17

YABU. I hope no one goes to the effort to make you anything...

I love homemade gifts. Someone has really gone to an effort to make it. MIL and my nan make lovely jumpers for DC and a friend at church made a beautiful pram blanket that I still use all the time.

BillywilliamV · 30/11/2019 06:21

Are the people posting on this threads the same people who posted on an identical thread a few weeks ago?
Home made gifts can be lovely, you sound hideously ungrateful!